A more strange sound than any that is heard anywhere else in the world. It is a more incessant, loud, rapid, and various gabble of tongues of all tones than was ever heard at Babel.


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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK
The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, ...
BENJAMIN SPOCK
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK
Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
In politics, nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Amusement to an observing mind is study.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish gre...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the wa...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI